Tag: QMS

Welcome to this month’s edition of our news digest here at the Betica Blog. With the year end rapidly approaching, your organization needs to burn the midnight oil to achieve its annual goals. Hopefully these interesting stories from the software engineering world inspire your own efforts.

As many software organizations now leverage Agile and DevOps with an eye towards achieving the Holy Grail of continuous delivery, automation is playing a larger role. One example of the growing importance of automated software delivery is the $20 million in venture capital awarded to Harness, a company hoping to make enterprise-level CD available to businesses of all sizes. News about the Harness VC appeared earlier this month in SiliconANGLE.

Reaching continuous software delivery is a challenge for the largest companies in the industry, so naturally it’s even more difficult to implement at a small to medium sized business. The smaller firms able to meet this goal end up relying on manual interaction to fix any problems and errors within the process. Harness hopes to change all that, and are led by an executive team filled with industry veterans with experience in DevOps and state of the art software development technology.

Harness CEO, Jyoti Bansal, formerly led AppDynamics, known for their app monitoring software. He commented on what Harness brings to the CD table.

“At AppDynamics, our customers were happily using our platform to monitor their complex software applications, but almost all of them told me that the process for delivering rapid changes to those applications remained a huge problem. Software engineering teams need a platform that’s intuitive and powered by modern AI to meet demand for incredibly fast, high-quality releases,” said Bansal.

The Harness solution leverages AI and machine learning to provide automated monitoring of the software delivery process. It learns about an application and becomes able to initiate rollbacks when detecting irregular behavior. This allows for continuous updates without the worries of downtime. If interested, Harness is offering free trials of its application at the following link.

Quality Management Software Market Grows

Organizations in a variety of industries rely on quality management software (QMS) to ensure consistency in what they produce, be it software, consumer products, or even manufactured goods. This need is leading to a rapid growth in the market for this type of application, which is now projected to grow to $24 billion by 2022. News about this growth appeared this month in the Nasdaq GlobeNewswire.

Some of the major drivers of this growth include increased usage of quality management software at small and medium sized businesses, greater need for QMS in the automotive industry, and the emerging Cloud-based business sector. North America is predicted to be the leading region for QMS usage over the next five years, but the rest of the world is also contributing to the overall market expansion.

Forward-thinking software companies need to consider entering the lucrative QMS market to take advantage of these newfound opportunities.

Stay tuned to the Betica Blog for additional news and insights from the growing software development industry. As always, thanks for reading!